Ella Fitzgerald - Live Scat Singing Performance (1969)

Ella Fitzgerald was a talented and versatile jazz singer whose work spans across more than half of a century. She’s most notable for singing music by the likes of Duke Ellington, James Mercer, and many more in her ‘Songbook’ series. In this live recording, however, she does something much more raw: scat singing, impromptu vocalization that shares the jazz philosophy of artistic expression. Listen as she closes her show with six minutes of improvisation, wowing and amusing the crowd as she goes. It’s no surprise that Ms. Fitzgerald was the best scat singer in the business.

Thanks to elchoko for sharing this live performance with us for jazz week. If you have a jazz piece that you’re dying to see up in lights this week, please let us know. We don’t bite.

Ella Fitzgerald
A Live Scat Singing Performance (1969)180 plays

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